How would one react to such a situation?:

Forgive me for bothering you. I might make a megathread for doubts in my novel. The novel is set in a steampunkish world with lots of fantastic racism. And I'm sorry for the grammar, English isn't my first language.

1) Boy Meets Girl during vacations. Boy (simon) and girl (Luna) promise to exchange letters. Boy kicks the bucket before he can answer the first letter he gets from girl. Boy's best friend (Leon) decides pretending to be him.

When Luna sends "Simon"a letter saying she's visiting him soon, Leon has a massive freak out and writes her explaining her everything. Sadly, the letter doesn't arrive, and Luna goes visit him, anyway.

Leon's close friend Julian finds her (he knows how she looks like because she's fairly famous) before Leon does and tells her what happened. Luna might be my character, but how the hell would one react to find that one out? Insist the Julian is lying and tell him to fuck off? Start sobbing madly? Luna has an abysmal self-steem and is extremelly self-concious but is fairly kind forgiving.

2) Also, I had the crack idea of writing a story in which such a situation happens in the real world. Characters would be completely different. E-mails and forums would be involved.

As in, boy and girl meet (during an anime event). They start changing e-mails. Girl dies, her starts pretending to be her. Then he find out what happened and it's not please. Would such a story be ridiculous?

Once again, forgive me for bothering you with two freaking questions.

edited 12th Feb '11 3:04:44 PM by risingdreamer

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

Only signing the letters as him? Is in, Simon dies of an illness, Leon promises to take care of Luna and starts sending her letters, signing as Simon. Then Luna goes visit "Simon" as a surprise and learns Simon has been dead for an year.

And the magic part should be scrapped, right? Maybe I should write the 2) version instead, then?

edited 12th Feb '11 4:01:42 PM by risingdreamer

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

Thanks! Maybe they met during vacations, studied together or something.

I would still like to use something like that in Luna's backstory, though. Maybe she used to be in a long distance relationship (or maybe just friendship) with a boy, but he dies and his best friend makes him promise him to take care of her? That would lead to a love triangle (with Luna going to the spirit world later on an all) and I kind of don't want that XD.

And thanks so much for your help. Forgive me for bothering you.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

How would Luna react after meeting her dead boyfriend's spirit in the underworld? Guilty about dating the friend, right? Then again, I think one of the boys would just pull a I Want My Beloved to be happy at the end.

And once again, I can't thank you enough for "listening" to me.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

Actually, having the still living boyfriend tell her about the promise he made to his friend could help ease the transition when she does die. Which, again, I feel is rather romantic.

And don't worry about bothering anyone: This is a forum, we can respond at anytime we find convenient. >:3 I just wouldn't go about asking the same things across multiple threads. That would be counted as trolling which many tropers don't take kindly to.

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